AMERICA'S INFERIOR POSITION 



American name is to be found, even though we 

 have a larger number of medical schools, medical 

 professors, and medical students than any other 

 country in the world. 



In another field. To-day, ocean travellers two 

 hundred miles from land talk with friends by a 

 telegraph that crosses space with invisible feet. 

 Marconi's admirable triumphs are merely the cul- 

 mination of a long train of patient researches on 

 the part of many workers in many lands. Clerk- 

 Maxwell, the English physicist, had predicted the 

 common nature of electricity and light before our 

 civil war came to an end. Seeking to verify this 

 surmise, Hertz, aided and advised by his patron, 

 the veteran von Helmholtz, made his epochal dis- 

 coveries at Karlsruhe. All the world knew of it 

 by the fall of 1888. 



A host of experimenters were instantly in the 

 field. The delicate coherer which made wireless 

 telegraphy possible was the discovery of Professor 

 Branly, of the Catholic University of Paris ; it was 

 first applied to signalling by Sir Oliver Lodge, of 

 Liverpool. Notable contributions have been made 

 by Popoff, of Russia ; by the Italian professor Righi ; 

 by the Germans Professor Slaby, Count Arco, Pro- 

 fessor Braun ; by Guarini, of Brussels ; by Lieuten- 

 ant Tissot in France, and Professor Bose, of Cal- 

 cutta, in India, to name but a few. It is to be 



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